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US grocers cut ties with Thai coconut milk company after PETA reveals monkey labour
Thailand’s coconut milk industry is under the spotlight again after PETA lobbies US grocers to boycott the products over alleged mistreatment of monkeys used in the collection of the coconuts.
Grocery stores throughout the US are cutting ties with the Thai coconut milk company Chaokoh and other Thailand coconut product suppliers following an investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals into monkey labour at Thailand coconut farms.
PETA Asia claims the macaque monkeys are “snatched from the wild” and treated like “coconut picking machines.”
Costco, Wegmans, Walgreens, Food Lion, Giant Food and Stop & Shop have stopped selling…
